About the Book
Title: Magdalena Gottschalk: The Crooked Trail
Author: M. Gail Grant
Genre: YA Fantasy
The
enchanted secret of Lily Brooke was safe and sound, until Magdalena and her
thirteen-year-old friends accidentally unleashed the revengeful demons of the
past. How were they supposed to know that a friendly expedition in the woods on
a stress-free Saturday morning would lead to the most intense and scary moments
of their lives? So many mysterious happenings have occurred ever since they
found that crooked trail leading to the sacrificial cave, and hidden
monstrosity of a treehouse. With the chanting voices and shrill noises that
only Magdalena could hear, the friends decide there is something sinister
living amongst them. Time is of the essence to save Lily Brooke and their
childhood club, the Mystical Alliance of Lily Brooke, knows it is up to them to
capture the demons hiding in their community and set the town free. Witches,
wizards, and some black magic may just be what it takes for Magdalena and her
best friends to save the day.
Author Bio
Melinda Gail
resides in Canton, Georgia with her three daughters, husband of over twenty
years, and two adorable fur babies.
Surrounded by the north Georgia mountains, the scenery provides for
inspirational settings for her novels. Being raised in the south, she brings a
little southern flair and tradition to her characters, all the while
remembering the adventurous nature of middle grades to young adult age
children. With a passion for the extraordinary and imagination, Melinda hopes
you enter a world of fantasy as you see life through the eyes of the
characters.
Writing has
always been her underlying passion in life. With a Bachelor of Science degree
in Psychology, and a minor in Sociology, she felt understanding and studying
human behavior on the individual and collective level, would apply to anything
and everything chosen to do in life. Identified as being a strong writer for
her age at the time, she attended a summer literary writer's camp around age
twelve. She flourished and loved every moment of the experience and it has
stayed with her throughout adulthood.
The desire to
write has always been an integral part of who Melinda is, and about eight
months ago she decided it was time. Having always been an avid reader of topics
from intense young adult fantasy and thrillers, to light hearted summer
romances, she chose juvenile to young adult ages for her book. In middle school
summers, she would stay up to the wee hours of the morning reading because she
just couldn’t put the book down. This basic idea, not being able to put a book
down, is the principal she built on while writing Magdalen Gottschalk: The
Crooked Trail. It has moments of ease, moments of intensity, moments of humor,
striving to offer some of her own personality in her writings. There is a time
for sweetness, a time for seriousness, and always a time for kindness and life
lessons. Her style isn’t made up. It is simply who she is, on paper.
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Gabriel casually walked over to the pantry which
was just a little closet to the right of the kitchen across from the large
table. He opened the door and began examining the pantry itself. You see, the
pantry was tiny. It was the size of a little broom closet and everything else
in this treehouse was of much larger magnitude. It just didn't fit. If you had
a table and eight chairs you had multiple people meeting or eating here and
this pantry would only hold enough food for a few people, not to mention
wouldn’t store anything of substance. Standing eye level in the pantry, his
eyes became fixed on an old lantern sitting on the middle of the shelf,
surrounded by canned food. Why in the world would an old lantern, just like the
two they had found in the cave, be sitting in the middle of a pantry inside of
a treehouse? And, surrounded by food, nonetheless. It was completely out of
place.
Gabriel grabbed the lantern and picked it up. As he
did, the pantry floor began to move and he quickly jumped back into the kitchen
and looked down. To his disbelief, the floor had opened revealing a dark
staircase. Gabriel looked up and saw Magdalena and Hubert staring at the floor
in amazement alongside him.
“No, no, no. I'm not doing this! If we go down
those steps and that trap floor decides to shut, we are stuck, stuck, stuck and
no one will ever find us!” screamed Hubert.
Magdalena stood there contemplating. Hubert had a
good point. Curiosity was killing the cat quickly, but, he really had a good
point. If they became trapped underneath the pantry floor, no one would ever
find them and they would die there. She was all about adventure, but that was
pushing it a little she thought, even for her.
She walked over to Gabriel, pulled another match
out of her pocket, lit the lantern Gabriel was still holding in his hand from
the pantry, and said, “Hubert, you stand watch and keep this lantern with you.
Do not let this floor close on us. Gabriel, let’s go check this out!”
Gabriel looked at Hubert and said, “Don't let us
down! If that floor closes you better run through that cave and get help. Don't
be scared, just do it!”
Hubert didn't know what was worse, going down those
stairs or the thought of running back through that sacrificial carved cave by
himself. The next time Gabriel or Magdalena knocked on his front door asking if
he wanted to go on an adventure exploring for the day, his answer would be a
big fat NO!
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